Love_Regardless

Love Regardless Love Regardless In “My Papa’s Waltz” and “Those Winter Sundays” there is a strong relationship between father and son that is centered on the unconditional love that exists between them. The bond between them is not shown through love and affection, but by the actions they take with regard to one another. Throughout the two poems there is a reoccurring theme of loving “no matter what” that makes their often uncomfortable and dissonant relationships positive ones in the end. The first stanza of “My Papa’s Waltz” starts out with a negative image. The father, who should be setting a positive example, is drunk in front of his young child. “The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy.” (Roethke 1, 2) However, the word that is used is “could,” so whether or not the boy was actually affected by the whiskey is unclear. It would seem that instead the word is used for emphasis on the how drunk the father was at the time, though it probably didn’t even bother his son. In the beginning it is hard to get a sense of the love between the father and son because of the starting father, son, love, time, day, one, hard, though, boy, between, because, work, waltz, unconditional, out, each, roethke, poem, loves, little, house, even, during, word, tone, together, stanza, spend, shown, rough, right, relationship, really, must, matter